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JCB’s Uptime Centre in control with Digital Projection laser technology

Digital Projection’s Highlite Laser projectors have been selected by Antycip Simulation to be fitted at the heart of JCB’s new Uptime Centre. Situated at JCB’s world headquarters in Rocester (UK), this mission critical control centre is running 12 hours a day from 6 am to 6 pm every day, collecting live data worldwide from any JCB machine fitted with a LiveLink telematics device.

Specifically designed for this application, the Uptime Centre constantly receives a live flow of data including machine status, service times and downtimes. This allows operators to instantly assess a situation before deciding to send an engineer out if the issue can’t be fixed remotely.

Supervising the integration was John Mould, Commercial Development Manager at Antycip Simulation, who opted for the Digital Projection Highlite Laser projectors and fitted four of these to the command and control room ceiling. In order to keep within budget and respect JCB’s brief, Antycip Simulation had to work with the existing room design. “Rear projection was not an option because of the room constraints and the size of the projecting area,” explains Mould. “We prepared a special wall surface to help reduce overall costs and avoid future potential issues associated with managing an extremely large tensioned fabric screen.”

In order to enable the projectors to be mounted closer to the front projection surface whilst affording the best amount of usable space below, Antycip specified Navitar short throw conversion lenses on 1.1:1. The projectors were custom mounted to optimise the light paths. Measuring 18 m x 4 m, the screen width fits a 3 x 4K blended array, with an operational resolution close to 6,000 x 1,200 pixels. Video content is delivered to the Highlite Laser projectors using Extron DTP RX/TX sender units. The image blending of the projectors is automatically calibrated using Vioso’s Anyblend software, a company that Antycip Simulation partners with. 

In addition to the video solution, Antycip Simulation was in charge of providing a new audio solution for the room. A total of eight Extron and Sonance in-ceiling speakers were installed.

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